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Previous research on the 1993 floods by Professor of Sociology
Terry Besser and Professor of Economics Dan Otto may provide lessons on what
recently flooded communities can expect as they try to
recover.

July Fourth

Classes will not be held and university offices will be closed Friday, July 4, to observe the national Independence Day holiday.

New online help for transfer students

Iowa's Regent universities and public community colleges have launched a new Web site, www.transferiniowa.org, that can help students answer the important question "How will my credits transfer?" Students who are interested in transferring to Iowa State can go directly to the TRANSIT web page to begin planning their journey to ISU.

Media advisory: ISU co-hosts international symposium on animal welfare and epidemiology July 14-16

Ames, ISU RAGBRAI entertainment will benefit disaster relief

Rock legends Styx will entertain RAGBRAI riders in Ames on July 22, along with local favorite band The Nadas. The RAGBRAI CYcling Country Festival will benefit the Embrace Iowa: 2008 Disaster Fund. "The Embrace Iowa: 2008 Disaster Fund gives Iowa State University and Ames a wonderful opportunity to show our support for our fellow Iowans who are suffering from the devastating floods," says ISU President Gregory Geoffroy. "I'm encouraging everyone to join us on July 22 and demonstrate our commitment to help those in great need."

Tree-killing fungus named by scientists at ISU, other institutions

Tom Harrington, ISU plant pathology, led a team that has officially named the fungus responsible for a devastating disease that is killing trees in the coastal plains of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.

Iowa State students prep $400,000 solar car for cross-continental
race

Sol Invictus, Iowa State University's latest student-designed
and student-built solar race car, will compete in the North American Solar
Challenge July 13-22. The challenge will take 24 university and college
teams 2,400 miles from Plano, Texas, to Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The cars
will race along Iowa's western border July 15-18.

Iowa State faculty are creating a rural renaissance community
index to curb out-migration

A group of 12 Iowa State University researchers is working on a
three-year rural renaissance community index project designed to identify
some of the greatest attributes found in rural Iowa communities through an
interactive database.

Change the world

Building bridges

The Iowa State University Steel Bridge Team recently won 10th
place at the 42-team National Student Steel Bridge Competition sponsored by
the
American Society of Civil Engineers. The bridge -- designed and built by
students -- also won first place in the aesthetics category.

Flooded farmlands may take decades to recover

On levees, flooding and redevelopment

Newsweek On Air

William Simpkins, an Iowa State University professor of
hydrogeology, answers questions about levees, the magnitude of the 2008
floods and redevelopment after flooding on this Newsweek podcast. His
comments begin 5 1/2 minutes into the podcast.